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louça

Portuguese, noun

louça is spelled L-O-U-Ç-A (5 letters) and appears 37 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,474th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Louça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “dishware, dishes; crockery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its cedilla, louca is a different word: “female equivalent of louco”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “toda a espécie de vasos de barro, porcelana, etc”.

What does louça mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininedishware, dishes; crockery

    Eu normalmente lavo a louça.

  2. 2

    femininechina (vessels made of pottery etc.)

adjective

as louca
  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of louco

noun

as louca
  1. 1

    femininefemale equivalent of louco

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. toda a espécie de vasos de barro, porcelana, etc. 2. primor

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of louça

  • louças plural
  • loiça alternative
  • loucas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to louça

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is louça in Portuguese?

louça appears 37 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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